As was mentioned, you can only read the one and not the other. Now you have an SSD with an APFS partition and a NTFS one. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to investigate why this happen and how to fix it. I wasn't able to do this to the second partition and had errors. Now you should be able to right click on the first SSD partition and click Erase. Go into your Mac OS partition and open Disk Utility. It's fairly easy to use and loads of help on the old tinternet. You need to create two NTFS partitions of whatever size you want. In there you should see your external drive. Go to bootcamp, then right click on My Computer, click manage, then go to disk managementĢ. I happen to have a spare external SSD lying around and, since I was installing Visual Studio, I figured I would play around with this.ġ. Bog standard exFAT does not support TRIM on OS X, so this is a really bad idea in general. Just search for NTFS vs exFAT SSD to read up on this. It's designed for small external drives and flash drives. If you're dead set on partitioning-or you're doing something that requires partitioning, like dual-booting your computer-then read on.Don't use exFAT. If you don't have to partition your drive, consider the pros and cons before continuing.
This is convenient, but it can also cause as many problems as it solves-if you run out of space on one partition and have too much free space on the other. Similarly, partitioning allows you to allocate one portion of your drive to Windows itself, with another for all your music, videos, and other files, so they don't get deleted when you reinstall your operating system.
However, by creating a partition, you can use Windows' built-in BitLocker to encrypt an entire partition and avoid using third-party software. If you want to encrypt files, for example, it may be easier to create a virtual disk with a program like VeraCrypt (Opens in a new window). Partitioning your drive seems convenient, but it isn't always the ideal solution to your problem.
If you aren't using all the space on your C: drive, you can divide it into multiple partitions for other uses. This process is called partitioning your drive, and in fact, your drive is probably partitioned out of the box: the majority of the drive is occupied by the C: partition, but most PCs also have a small "Recovery" partition that can help repair your system if something goes wrong. It's actually easy to do, and all the necessary tools are built right into Windows.
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